as in partially
in some measure or degree
that was a halfway decent performance of a difficult piece
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as in incomplete
lacking some necessary part
when halfway measures, such as posting signs, failed to keep people off the property, a fence was erected
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as in middle
occupying a position equally distant from the ends or extremes
by the time she had reached the halfway point, she was ready to quit the marathon
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Recent Examples of halfway
W. James Antle Iii,
The Washington Examiner,
27 June 2026
Mora picked the ball up on halfway and just kept on motoring forward, moving towards two runners on the right, eventually nudging the ball through for Jorge Sanchez, who bundled the ball across for Quinones to finish.
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Jack Lang,
New York Times,
26 June 2026
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2026
Biro’s sending off came after battling for the ball with Charlotte FC striker Idan Toklomati on the halfway line.
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David Eckert,
Austin American Statesman,
7 Mar. 2026
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Conservative activists cost Republicans some competitive Senate seats — the GOP didn’t win control of the upper chamber until nearly halfway through Barack Obama’s second term — but helped win the House and stayed embedded in their deep-red districts.
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W. James Antle Iii,
The Washington Examiner,
27 June 2026
Mora picked the ball up on halfway and just kept on motoring forward, moving towards two runners on the right, eventually nudging the ball through for Jorge Sanchez, who bundled the ball across for Quinones to finish.
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Jack Lang,
New York Times,
26 June 2026
Adjective
And finally… The highlight of Nottingham Forest’s 1-1 draw at Porto in the Europe League’s quarter-finals last night was Porto’s Martim Fernandes conceding this early own goal from not far off the halfway line.
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Phil Hay,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2026
Biro’s sending off came after battling for the ball with Charlotte FC striker Idan Toklomati on the halfway line.
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David Eckert,
Austin American Statesman,
7 Mar. 2026
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California is known to have a slow vote count, partially because of the state’s grace period for mail-in ballots.
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However, this year, most of the leaves are very small and partially eaten.
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Many nonprofits carry years of fragmented or incomplete records, a challenge that compounds when AI tools are layered on top of them.
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The report found some shelter programs cost significantly more to operate than others, but due to incomplete and inconsistent data, auditors were unable to determine whether higher spending translated into better outcomes.
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Gartner predicted this moment in October 2024, forecasting that 20% of organizations would use AI to flatten their structures by 2026, eliminating more than half of existing middle-management roles.
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The adaptation of Sachar’s middle-grade classic—in which one Stanley Yelnats IV is sent to a detention camp where he is forced to dig a hole every day—is nowhere near as good as the book.
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The controversial romance between Wilson and Batula, half-heartedly dubbed #Scamanda — though that nickname never took off the way #Scandoval did in spring 2023 — was confirmed by them on March 31 in a joint post on Instagram.
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Whether that cup is half full or half empty is the issue at hand.
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Panic inside buildings Videos circulating on social media showed people rushing out of buildings in the capital, while some users reported partial collapses and damage to structures.
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The blaze ignited Wednesday at the nearly 500,000-square-foot cold storage facility run by a company called Lineage, beginning on the roof, which caused a partial collapse and moved the flames into the building, where 85 million pounds of food are stored.
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The report draws on state-level estimates of life expectancy at age 65 (16 to 20 years, more or less, depending on the state), average retirement benefits, median net worth and expected retirement expenses.
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The first phase is expected to create 72 modern apartments; rents at 70% of them will be restricted to what tenants making just 60% of the area’s median income could afford.
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Of those, 40% were adapted from books, which has been the case since 2025 (since 2023 the number of book adaptations has increased by 73%, a trend partly prompted by the rise of BookTok).
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Otherwise, expect a partly cloudy and humid night with temperatures cooling into the mid and upper 60s away from the bay by sunrise on Tuesday.
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About 220,000 need major repair or replacement, and 41,677 are rated poor, also called structurally deficient.
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What is often misunderstood is that any of these virtuous behaviors can manifest as deficient vices when underdeveloped and as excess vices when strong but unsupported by the other 10 character dimensions, as evidenced by Steve Jobs.
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“Halfway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfway. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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